Mother and father Quotes · Page 4

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

— Drew Barrymore

I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.

— Jeb Bush

My mother and father were lovely parents, always quite hard up, but very hard-working.

— Prunella Scales

Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.

— Anna Godbersen

My mother and father split up when I was three and my brother was still in the womb.

— Susan Straight

No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them.

— Desmond Morris

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.

— Doris Grumbach

You know how my mother and father met? In a train robbery!

— Tzipi Livni

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand…

— Martha Graham

I have always been grateful that my Russian mother and father came to this country to give me a better chance, and…

— Kirk Douglas

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when…

— Quentin Crisp

I know how critical that is, having a mother and father involved in your life, and I'm going to continue to be…

— Dakota Meyer

I am very lucky. I have known wonderful romantic love in my life but to actually see this little creature and find…

— Anne-Marie Duff

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was…

— Colin Hay

My mother and father instilled in me a sense of purpose not defined by today's street obsession with bling, cars or cribs.

— Brian J. White

My mother and father didn't treat my brothers and sisters the same, so to treat 12 players exactly the same, that's a…

— Kenny Smith

I do recognize the most valuable work being done across the country is that work being done inside the four walls in…

— Ann Romney

My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our…

— Tom Brokaw

I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes…

— Richard Dawkins

The sweetest thing I could say about my mother and father is that if I had the choice, I would have picked…

— Andrew Vachss

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on…

— Anonymous

As a youngster, my mother and father always drilled into my head having something to fall back on. My father was kind…

— Shaquille O'Neal

There was a point where I was leaving for California when I was 22. It was a tough decision to make because,…

— Ted Raimi

When I was a teenager, my father went bust. He could have declared himself bankrupt, but he was an honourable man and…

— Jo Nesbo

For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of limeade, and a…

— Neil Gaiman

“But, Cass, ask yourself, look out and ask yourself – wouldn’t you hate all white people if they kept you in prison…

— James Baldwin

“Why do you go to Chapel, Huw?” he asked me, still going on with his work. “Because,” I said, and then I…

— Richard Llewellyn

“We succeeded in taking that picture from [deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's…

— Carl Sagan

You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is…

— Chuck D

What is a normal child like? Does he just eat and grow and smile sweetly? No, that is not what he is…

— Anonymous

“Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing could be further…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever…

— Carl Sagan

All of my decisions I made when I was a kid were decisions, would my mother and father be proud of.

— Ken Venturi

Mothers and fathers do really crazy things with the best of intentions.

— Rosalind Wiseman

But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24

— Rachael Leigh Cook

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

— Dominic Chianese

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

— Ellen Muth

I did everything I could to fight hard on the court to show my mother and father that their hard work was…

— Roberto Bautista Agut

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

— Henry Cavill

Both my mother and father were very supportive of any career move any of us wanted to make.

— James Gandolfini